Antipyrine.

An alkaloid synthetically prepared, Dimethyl-oxy-chinicine. Solutions in distilled

water or triturations.

Properties :- ► It reduces the temperature of the body, allays pain, promotes sleep
and cause perspiration.

► Swollen body, great pains in limbs. ► Numbness. ► Anxiety. ► "I don't know
what is the matter with me, I remember nothing, I am becoming like an idiot, I am
going mad." ► Loss of consciousness. ► Headache. ► Dizziness. ► Snapping in
head so that she ran up and down the room screaming, partially losing control of
herself and apprehending insanity. ► Singing in ears, with congestion. ►
Sneezing violently, about twenty times without pause, face and eyes suffused, tears
flowed, mucus flowed from nose, breathing labored, with feeling of suffocation,
inability to lie down, violent cough, with expectoration of much mucus, with
profuse sweat. ► Itching and burning in mouth and throat, agg. in roof of mouth,
the feeling soon extended to eyes, nose and ears, violent sneezing at least fifty
times, with copious watery fluid running from nose and eyes, such turgescence of
mucous membrane that she could not breathe through nose, afterwards stupid,
tormenting feeling, with swelling of nose and eyes till exhausted she fell asleep,
sleep disturbed and tiresome. ► Coppery taste in violent bouts, with intermittent
coppery smell.

► No appetite. ► Vomiting. ► Epigastric pain causing her to bend forward and

cry out. ► Gastro -enteritis. ► Expanding sensation rising from stomach, in stead
of the nausea which she had had. ► Pain in abdomen. ► Incontinence of urine. ►
Urine diminished. ► Hoarseness. ► Dyspnœa, breathing hard, with feeling of
suffocation. ► Pain in chest. ► Tightness of chest. ► Depressing effect upon
heart from large doses, causing disturbed circulation and respiration, cyanosis and
vomiting, the final result is paralysis, these are the secondary action. ► Pulse rapid
and full. ► Pulse increases, temperature decreases.

► Œdema of arms and hands. ► Skin covered with red spots. ► Eruptions appear
and disappear suddenly. ► Erythematous eruption appearing first in arms, passing
down, appearing last on legs. ► Erythematous patches on arms, eyes felt
uncomfortable, she slept scarcely at all, feet cold, next morning face was red and
swollen, eyes almost closed, the rash was general and of the color of pomegranate,
the intervals between the patches scarcely noticeable at first sight, appetite poor,
sensation as if inside of body were filled with ice, little itching, next day catarrhal
conjunctivitis, irritation of nasal fossæ and hoarseness, pulse twice as fast as usual,
78 to the minute, buzzing in ears, for sometime afterwards prostration and
intermittent sensations of cold. ► Itching on inside of thighs, with urticaria, which
soon extended to abdomen. ► Urticaria, especially in women ; general U., with
intense itching, she tears herself with her nails. ► Sleepiness. ► Intermittent
coldness. ► Heat. ► Cold sweat, then quick rise in temperature, with chill and
full, rapid pulse.

Clinical :- ► High fever in morning in rising, wanting water, headaches, pain in

frontal sinuses. ► Erythema.